We've all heard the saying "Death Begins in the Colon."
Then it should come as no surprise that many
alternative doctors believe that
a disrupted ecology of the gastrointestinal tract may be at the heart of up
to 90%
of all known human illness and disease.

Adding the friendly bacteria Lactobacillus seemed to work even better,
leaving most people migraine-free for a year and lessening the intensity and frequency
of recurring headaches in the others, the lead researcher said. Experts were cautiously
receptive to the idea but said the findings were too tentative to draw any firm
conclusions.

At the turn of the century, Ilya Metchnikoff
suggested that the consumption of live microbes in fermented milk products to maintain
this balance between pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria may be, at least in part,
an explanation for why certain ethnic groups lived longer.

Patients with CFS "look" normal, and their routine laboratory tests are normal as well. (More specialized tests are not.) Medical textbooks have been slow to catch on to the fact that you have to dig deeper in order to find the abnormalities. However, the following are now well-established, measurable abnormalities that can be found in many CFS patients . . .

Toxic overload in the body - triggered by increased intestinal permeability and an imbalanced microflora in the gut - may be a precipitating factor that triggers and drives Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), according to a new review study.